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Detailed explanation-1: -Q. Which country has found the radioactive capsule that went missing in January? Notes: Authorities in Western Australia announced that they have found a tiny radioactive capsule which went missing last month. The capsule was found when a vehicle equipped with specialist equipment detected radiation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Missing radioactive capsule found in Western Australia A tiny but highly radioactive capsule that went missing in the Australian outback was found Wednesday after a frantic weeklong search covering an 870-mile stretch of highway.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Caesium-137 capsule lost in transit more than two weeks ago was discovered using specialist detection equipment which picked up the radiation. On Wednesday (February 1), authorities recovered a tiny radioactive capsule, smaller than a coin, lost in Australia’s vast Outback.

Detailed explanation-4: -A tiny radioactive capsule, smaller than a 10-cent coin and lost on a stretch of highway in outback Western Australia, has miraculously been found. The caesium-137 capsule, measuring just 8 millimetres long, was lost between Perth and a Rio Tinto mine site in the Pilbara.

Detailed explanation-5: -The gauge was being transported by a subcontracted company, which picked it up from the mine site on 12 January to move it to a storage facility in the north-east suburbs of Perth. When it was unpacked for inspection on 25 January the gauge was found broken apart and the radioactive capsule was gone.